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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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Men talk of finding God, but no wonder it is difficult He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
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Blessed is the satirist and blessed the ironist blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.
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Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
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A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
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The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
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Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
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